The first wintry precipitation event of the season spread a mixture of snow and freezing rain across most of New Jersey during the first half of the day on the 4th. Accumulations averaged 1 to 3 inches with some higher amounts in Mercer County. Except for parts of Sussex County, the snow changed to freezing rain before ending during the morning with ice accretions of one to two tenths in most areas. While this event occurred on the Sunday morning and cut down on traffic, because it was the first widespread wintry precipitation event of the season, numerous accidents, some with serious injuries and fatalities occurred. Snow began falling shortly after Midnight EST on the 4th in the southern part of the state and spread north during the next one to two hours. Precipitation changed to freezing rain in Cumberland and western Atlantic Counties (it changed to rain farther to the southeast) around 3 a.m. EST, in the local Philadelphia Metropolitan area around 6 a.m. EST and in northern New Jersey between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. EST. In interior sections of southeastern New Jersey, the freezing rain changed to plain rain before sunrise. Elsewhere precipitation ended as freezing rain during the morning. In Hamilton Township (Atlantic County), a 27-year-old man and and 32-year-old woman were killed when the vehicle the man was driving skidded off the Atlantic City Expressway and struck a tree. Two other passengers in the vehicle were seriously injured. In Egg Harbor Township (Atlantic County), three vehicles crashed into each other on the westbound median of the Atlantic City Expressway. One person who left the car to look at the damage was critically injured when struck by another vehicle. In Bordentown (Burlington County), a 43-year-old man was struck and killed on the New Jersey Turnpike. He lost control of his vehicle and became disabled on the left shoulder. He was killed after he vacated his vehicle and was struck by another passing vehicle. In Middlesex County, a charter bus with 25 passengers on board skidded off the New Jersey Turnpike in South Brunswick. The driver was thrown through the window but was not seriously hurt. Five other passengers suffered minor injuries. In Monmouth County, a charter bus with 18 passengers on board slid off the Garden State Parkway. One passenger was injured. County Route 547 was closed due to numerous accidents. New Jersey State Police rsponded to 586 accidents throughout the state, 246 on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway and 25 on the Atlantic City Expressway.     Snowfall included 3.8 inches in Ewing (Mercer County), 3.2 inches in Cream Ridge (Monmouth County), 3.1 inches Wertsville (Hunterdon County), 3.0 inches in Princeton (Mercer County), Skillman (Somerset County) and Newton (Sussex County), 2.9 inches in New Brunswick (Middlesex County), 2.6 inches in Chatham (Morris County), 2.5 inches in Flemington (Hunterdon County), 2.4 inches in Hillsborough (Somserset County) and Stewartsville (Warren County), 2.2 inches in Hackettstown (Warren County), 2.0 inches in Mount Holly (Burlington County), Butler (Morris County) and Piscataway (Middlesex County), 1.9 inches in Neptune (Monmouth County) and Barry Lakes (Sussex County), 1.1 inches in Beachwood (Ocean County), 0.8 inches in Somerdale (Camden County) and 0.3 inches at the Atlantic City International Airport. The wintry mix of precipitation was caused by a fast moving low pressure system that moved from Oklahoma on the morning of the 3rd to the Maryland panhandle at 7 a.m. EST on the morning of the 4th and was quickly offshore by that afternoon.

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